CULTURE OF PEACE

EDUCATION AND
HUMAN VALUES
ACTIVITY
1. What is your favorite color? Give 3 deep
reasons why.
2. What is your favorite animal? Give 3 deep
reasons why.
3. What is your favorite form/shape of water?
Give 3 deep reasons why.
CULTURE OF PEACE
EDUCATION AND
HUMAN VALUES
 Culture of peace education was formulated
in 1989, in view of the necessity of building up a
new vision of peace, through the development
of new culture.
• Respect for life
• Freedom
• Justice
• Solidarity
 Relies on the peaceful settlement and
dispute through dialogue

 Dialogue is an important process to achieve

peaceful resolution of conflict.
 The Declaration (UN, 1998) state that “ a
culture of peace is a set of values, attitudes,
traditions, modes of behavior and ways of life
that reflect and inspire:
4 STAGES OF CULTURE OF PEACE

1. Respect for life and for all human rights

By having a sence of inherent dignity
towards other regardless of their backgrounds.
2. Rejection of violence in forms and
prevention of violent conflict
By refusal to respond to and adversary or
conflict situation with violence, instead solving
the problem through dialogue as against the
use of physical force.
• Physical Psychological Social
• sexual Economical
3. Promotion to the equal rights and
opportunities of men and women
Valuing the rights of women to enjoy equal
opportunities with men and free from abuse,
exploitation and violence.
4. Recognition of the rights of everyone to
freedom of expression, opinion and
information.
Willingness to approach receive others
people ideas, belief and opinion with a critical
open mind and with respect.
A PHILIPPINE FRAMEWORK
TOWARDS A CULTURE
OF PEACE
Promoting a culture of
Peace: Six Dimensions
and Operative Values
A culture of peace is a
patway of life. It is the
respect and protection of
every person’s human
dignity.
1) Personal and Family Integrity
 Personal values of honesty, descipline etc.
 Family values- fidelity, unity, love of parents
and children
 vs. vices-e.g drugs, gambling pornography
etc.
 need develop a spirituality: God-centered,
with social concerns
2) Human Rights and Democracy
 Human rights are universal
 Rights to life, to educate, freedom of religious
etc
 Freedom of speech and assembly, rights to
vote freely in genuine democracy
 vs. human rights violation
 vs. vote-buying and electorial violation
 Justice- for law and order in accord with
Natural Moral Law
3) Poverty Eradication
 for integral human development
 provide basic needs for food, shelter,
health, education, etc
 promote social interprose
 virtue of compassion and social concern
4) Intercultural Understanding and Solidarity
 for appriciation of other cultures and religions
 vs. discrimination, stereotyping
 interreligious and inter-cultural dialogue
5) Disarmaments and Cessation of Hostilities
 for conflict resolution, peace negotiations
 vs. proliferation of firearms
 vs. acts of violence against persons propety
 active non-violence as response to injustice
6) Environmental Protection
 protect watershed areas
 waste management
 vs. illegal logging, irresponsable mining, etc,
air pollution
 Stewardship needed
 The values that aptly correspond to these
dimenssions are:
Spirituality
Justice
Dialogue
Compassion
Active non-violence
Stewardship
The greatest gift we can give to our
children is to raise the in a
Culture of Peace
-Louise Diamond
THANK YOU !!!